Bill Tomlinson is an Assistant Professor of Informatics at the University of California,
Irvine, and a researcher in the California Institute for Telecommunications and
Information Technology. He studies the fields of multi-agent systems, human-
computer interaction, real time graphics and environmental technologies. He
has authored more than thirty scholarly publications over the last five years,
including work at the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems conference,
ACM CHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning conference
and numerous other conferences and journals. Previous interactive projects have
been shown in the Emerging Technologies program at ACM SIGGRAPH ('97, '98, '99,
'01, '05), at the Game Developers Conference, and at Ars Electronica, and have been reviewed by CNN,
the Wall Street Journal, Sculpture Magazine, Scientific American Frontiers, the LA Times, Wired.com
and the BBC. In 2007, he received an NSF CAREER award. In addition his animated film, Shaft of Light,
screened at the Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by the Anti-Defamation League in its
Anti-Bias/Diversity Catalog. He holds an A.B. in Biology from Harvard College, an M.F.A. in
Experimental Animation from CalArts, and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the MIT Media Lab.
More information can be found about him on his webpage.
Joel Ross is a graduate student in Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. His research
interests include Computer Graphics, Ubiquitous Computing, and Human-Computer Interfaces.
More information about him can be found on his webpage.
Ellen Eramya is an undergraduate student in Informatics at the University of California, Irvine.
She joined the GreenScanner project in December 2006. She is involved in Women in
Information and Computer Sciences (WICS), where she is Co-President of the 2007/2008
Board, and was Webmaster of the 2006/2007 Board.
More information about her can be found on the WICS webpage.